McInnis v. State

KING, C.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Johnny Mclnnis was convicted in the Circuit Court of Jones County of burglary of a dwelling and sentenced as a habitual offender to twenty-five years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC). Aggrieved, Mclnnis appeals raising the following assignments of error: (1) the trial court erred in granting jury instruction S-2 because the evidence was insufficient to support the instruction, and (2) the trial court erred in denying defense counsel’s circumstantial-evidence jury instruction. While we find that the trial court erred in granting…